This series was recorded as I recovered from illness and is heavily edited. However, I decide to expound upon what I can mostly remember from my years of Studying Naval Military History. I hope it suffices. Have a good year folks, lets get this one locked in.
@@MetalGlitch I want whatever gave Tex and company the idea for raver Charles II.
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@@hexfighter2012I watched the introduction just before I had a meeting with HR because TH-cam autoplayed it. I'd not long woke up and had taken my first round of medication for the day which was a bit of SuperGlue Citra, after a night of almost no sleep. Holy fuck. That was fun. Tired, groggy, baked and wondering what drugs caused that intro. Meeting went surprisingly well too.
For real. The trick with teaching history isn’t names and dates. It’s about the narrative… Understanding how the pieces fit together and why things happened. I wish I had history teachers in school that did what Tex is doing in this video.
@@300lbsNick arguably, understanding the motivations of a person are more important than the actual person themselves. If you can understand that, 99% of history kind of unfolds itself for you.
he also makes it entertaining with humorus side stories and other random but fun stuff. history in school was presented in such a boring bland uninteresting way. even my teachers were so monotone i could barely stay awake.
During the Spanish-American War there was also the Capture of Guam where the American's gunnery was so bad the Spanish fort they were aiming at thought the American ship was saluting the fort. IIRC the captain of the fort got in a boat with a handful of other people to sail to the American ship apologize for not returning the salute because they are out of gunpowder, where they learned they are at war with America.
I needed that intro this morning for sure! Edit: It turns out the history dump is even better than the intro for fighting the dread about having to go to work in a few hours.
The Olympia is still around! It's a museum in Philadelphia, it's rad. You read the stories and journals it has about its various voyages and you really get the impression that a late 19th century warship was essentially a large, very heavily armed summer camp for young men. "Well it's my summer off from school, shall I play rugby, baseball or navy?"
With the new HOI4 update, I was using super heavy railway cannons. I had said cannon supporting one of my divisions attacking in Central America. My forces somehow packed that whole railway gun up into a ship to sail it up to Panama to continue its alakablam. I was just sitting there stunned trying to imagine what kinda vessel we must of made to transport this massive train and attached cannon. Seeing your intro here with Railway guns on ships has renewed this fever dream of a concept in my mind.
I was playing Chile going down the anti colonialist focus tree route. Basically fighting EVERYONE in the Americas to put the OG native nations back in power.
It's good to see that even with the new update, railway guns just want to be free and live their best life on the high seas (wanting to be naval artillery?)
They were designed to be disassembled for long-distance transport, but I choose to believe your men just built tracks on a pair of cargo ships and had them play leap frog all the way to port.
I have to feel like if there's an afterlife for military people who die in combat, being the ONLY PERSON to die in a particular battle would be disconcerting... Like, you get there, you dust yourself off, and wait for your friends to reach you... and wait... and wait... 😅
This intro, the many "commercials" and the deep spoon feeding of lore. These, these things are why I choose to be a lurking ExPro for so long. Thank you for this, insomnia is in full swing. I have an app with a waiting room in 4 hours. I needed this laugh.
If anyone's confused about why a couple of islands full of guano (literally mountains of bird shit) were such a big deal, for somewhere around two hundred years those islands were one of if not THE leading source of nitrates in the world. Nitrates are essential for making gunpowder and fertilizers, which made Chilean nitrates some of the most valuable shit in the world until Germany started building Haber-Bosch Process reactors during the First World War, so control of those islands meant you had effective control over world arms manufacture. A Big Deal.
20:36 "Here's some armor, nobody fighting you has anything close to it, but wearing it in the jungle's probably literally more dangerous than just fighting in a shirt."
There is a good reason why alot of them adopted native styles of armor. Though to be fair most of the common soliders and "sailors"(who were turned into foot troops)didn't have the funds for much beyond a sword and sheild plus a basic armor like a helm and breastplate.
My guess? We were just mind our business when our dad shits the bed in his senility and we have to be the adult and keep the neighbors from burning down the neighborhood.
1 hour 15 minutes in, he says thats all I remember about Spanish history...... Dude, that hour was more than i got in 4 years as a Social Studies Education major with a concentration in History. Thank you for the knowledge! And yes it's been a while, but i hope you feel better!
On the admiration that Horatio Nelson held for the Santisima Trinidad, I've always been fascinated by the professional camaraderie that Age of Sail officers seemed to have for each other, even across rival nations. I like to think that part of this is due to the fact that no matter how horrifying battle could be, the ocean could always do far worse to a sailor.
The 'threaten to blow up a town unless the owner pays up, because someone you like got hurt there' reminded me of an incident leading up to the War of 1812. British ship, the Leander, fired a warning shot at a ship they were trying to interdict. And, way the hell on the far side of the interdicted boat, some poor sod called John Pierce, minding his own business, blinked and found himself in the hereafter, the Leander's shot having deleted his head. This is why we check our backstops, kids.
Personally i find that intro perfectly summed up what the idea of an alternate history for spain would look like if someone who knows the way naval history would go might have saved the spanish navy
I was in Madrid in 2016 and stumbled across the maritime museum. They have some trippy stuff from the New World and Age of Exploration. Plus models of most ships which I did enjoy learning about their ships.
I always look forward to Naval and other history with Tex. The devil is always in the details. Tex gives us the context to the best of his abilities for all the side notes from our history books. Between Tex and The Fat Electrician, I'm learning a lot more about history than I did in school and I'm all for it.
30:25 7th Sea mention! Some additional fun facts about the Spanish Empire (accuracy not guaranteed): Thanks to the Manila galleons, New Spain actually had a decent population of Filipino, Chinese, and to a lesser extent Japanese immigrants. The Spanish also harvested so much gold and silver from the Americas that it actually *tanked* their economy from inflation, leading to a substantial amount of counterfeit currency being created using less valuable metals. At one point, the crown decided to dump their *entire supply* of one of the more common counterfeiting materials into the ocean in order to curb the issue. What was this material? *PLATINUM.* The Wars of Spanish Succession are also directly responsible for what is commonly referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, as many of the infamous captains and crews were initially recruited and trained as privateers by the European powers involved and promptly fired once the Wars ended and privateering was declared illegal. Unsurprisingly, telling a bunch of militarily trained men with their own ships and weapons to quit their very lucrative jobs and go home to their much duller, worse quality lives without compensation didn't go over particularly well.
Fun Spanish Silver facts: at one point, 1/3rd of every silver coin in China came from a Peruvian/Mexican silver mine. The decline of the trade with Spain was a large factor in the gradual shift to trade with the British EIC, who realized that there was this lil plant called Opium that the Chinese really liked buying cheaply from India...
To be fair, this happened after pretty much any war, both naval and on land. There's a reason why robber barons and various armed bands went around the countryside that eventually needed to be hunted down.
more silly boat!!! >= 3 Fill the oceans with trophies of victory. edit: the studio behind this is undergoing reorganization and might be shutting down.
@@scp2539 Indeed. The last update rolled out in December although he seems to be running an earlier build. Lots of modders around still though with some fantastic mods that make the game much better
I would love to see European Farcry with a cop, Tex and Dep running Generation Zero would probably be horrible for all parties given how janky it is but given their love for cold war era stuff and the fun way the robits explode they might actually have fun with it.
That intro is why I'm here, a consistent dedication to... quality. Probably took longer to make than the actual recording, and gives me more social studies flashbacks than the history channel ever did.
I keep rewatching the intro, catching more and more layers to the humor and rapid-fire history lesson/meme every time. JFC I wish my history classes had been like this, it makes me want to start reading historical non-fiction (beyond war materiel stat-porn).
No words...should have sent...a poet. Seriously Tex & the entire BPL crew - thank you for these incredible series. They are so much fun to watch and hear your passion for history (and naval history), bring people tons of joy (and are rewatchable as hell!!!!)
I really enjoy the gameplay in the background with the historical lecture over top format, I thank you as a history fiend. Alao thanks to the editor, nice and slick.
Would pop any cocktail of good times and absolutely whiplash myself into a coma over that intro. Peak banger territory. I wanna see this played on a big rave stage screen.
I have pneumonia and have had a 102 fever for the past three days. That intro matched my fever dreams so uncannily that I got vertigo and started wondering if I was conscious or not.
This series was recorded as I recovered from illness and is heavily edited. However, I decide to expound upon what I can mostly remember from my years of Studying Naval Military History.
I hope it suffices.
Have a good year folks, lets get this one locked in.
If you don't have your health you have nothing. Remember to take the time.
Hope you feel better, remember to not push yourself too hard
I enjoyed the long (but brief compared to how much you could have spoken on it) history of the spanish navy.
Tex please take care of yourself. You put so much good into the world we need more people like you and to lose one would be a tragedy.
i have a feeling this year will be the year
After seeing that intro... Someone hug me, I'm scared
I'm pretty sure you need to be on some sort of psychedelic to understand the intro... XD
@@MetalGlitch Gypsy is... interesting
...
Press "S" to snort 👌
Honestly Almost thought I had slipped into some crazy fever dream. Almost.
@@MetalGlitch I want whatever gave Tex and company the idea for raver Charles II.
@@hexfighter2012I watched the introduction just before I had a meeting with HR because TH-cam autoplayed it.
I'd not long woke up and had taken my first round of medication for the day which was a bit of SuperGlue Citra, after a night of almost no sleep.
Holy fuck.
That was fun.
Tired, groggy, baked and wondering what drugs caused that intro.
Meeting went surprisingly well too.
Tex always attacks Maine because he knows what waits for him there if he doesn’t take it out first and it scares him.
Quiet you
Ha! Someone is really scared
@@theblackpantslegion do not be afraid Tex, the bad Mr.King cannot hurt you
We got a nice comfy spot for you In the 100 Mile wilderness.
Ha !
>"I don't know much about this so don't quote me or anything"
>proceeds to smoke 90%+ of high-school history teachers on the casual
For real. The trick with teaching history isn’t names and dates. It’s about the narrative… Understanding how the pieces fit together and why things happened. I wish I had history teachers in school that did what Tex is doing in this video.
Oh, hello there greymuzzle.
Real historians are just built different. 😂
@@300lbsNick arguably, understanding the motivations of a person are more important than the actual person themselves. If you can understand that, 99% of history kind of unfolds itself for you.
he also makes it entertaining with humorus side stories and other random but fun stuff. history in school was presented in such a boring bland uninteresting way. even my teachers were so monotone i could barely stay awake.
The ultimate counterpart to Tex Talks History, Tex Ruins History (& laughs maniacally)
Talks for an hour on Spanish history over 500 years. "Yeah, that's all I remember, sorry folks"... you're a humble man, Tex.
I don't know if I've ever been horrified by something so beautiful or fell in love with something so horrifying as that intro
Indeed, same here with that kookyness
truly Habsburgian in its grace and elegance, with each second I felt additional length being added onto the underbite
The intro is glorious.
its 2024 and Gabber is coming back from the depths :D
During the Spanish-American War there was also the Capture of Guam where the American's gunnery was so bad the Spanish fort they were aiming at thought the American ship was saluting the fort. IIRC the captain of the fort got in a boat with a handful of other people to sail to the American ship apologize for not returning the salute because they are out of gunpowder, where they learned they are at war with America.
Americans, making up for the lack of gunnery by volume of fire since 1776
This is true enough. A truly sad day for the Spaniards.
The intro is absolutely baller
You ain't lying my guy!
That opening was one hell of trip.
10/10
The intros were always top notch, but this one...this one takes the cake.
Man. The intro is peak early 2000s Jib-Jab. Took me back to my high school days with Capitol Ill and so on.
I needed that intro this morning for sure!
Edit: It turns out the history dump is even better than the intro for fighting the dread about having to go to work in a few hours.
Tex: "I don't know much about Spanish History."
Me: Son! Come here and watch this youtube vid to study for your history test!"
The Olympia is still around! It's a museum in Philadelphia, it's rad. You read the stories and journals it has about its various voyages and you really get the impression that a late 19th century warship was essentially a large, very heavily armed summer camp for young men. "Well it's my summer off from school, shall I play rugby, baseball or navy?"
"Get off Reddit, you'll be happier."
Preach.
I hope this turns into the timeline where the Red Army Choir is forced to play Banda Music and Emporer Hirohito is an aspiring Matador.
I can't get that image out of my head now of the Emperor dodging bulls.
My current rip through as Italy sees Stalin as a spaghetti western movie star with political asperations.
@@devilin100 Presenting Joey Stalin in High Noon in Georgia.
@@razorburn645 Cattle Queen of Piedmont
@@devilin100 There could be an entire franchise. He could be the Jon Wayne of soviet westerns.
With the new HOI4 update, I was using super heavy railway cannons. I had said cannon supporting one of my divisions attacking in Central America. My forces somehow packed that whole railway gun up into a ship to sail it up to Panama to continue its alakablam.
I was just sitting there stunned trying to imagine what kinda vessel we must of made to transport this massive train and attached cannon. Seeing your intro here with Railway guns on ships has renewed this fever dream of a concept in my mind.
I was playing Chile going down the anti colonialist focus tree route. Basically fighting EVERYONE in the Americas to put the OG native nations back in power.
It's good to see that even with the new update, railway guns just want to be free and live their best life on the high seas (wanting to be naval artillery?)
We need Ultimate Admirals Dreadnaughts modded madness.
They were designed to be disassembled for long-distance transport, but I choose to believe your men just built tracks on a pair of cargo ships and had them play leap frog all the way to port.
As a Spaniard I would like to say that intro was jodidamente genial. I am eager to see what happens throughout the series!
Por fin vamos a tener la España que merecemos.
How close to what you were taught did Tex get?
I request to be a No Armour Destroyer with prayers and thoughts as method of living.
Meh armour is wasted on destroyers! More torpedoes!!!
@@JosephKano Reinforced bulkheads and anti torp sans HotDog Factory is a valid destroyer build. Torps go SPLASH
‘No besties in Europe’? Portugal is the best bestie. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance has lasted since 1385!
Initially formed as a reaction to the Spanish trying to forcibly integrate the Portruguese crown no less
@@Cordman1221if there is anyone the British have beef with besides the French it's the Spanish.
"I am ... a Spanish naval historian"
-Tex, Jan 2025
The intro was truly Habsburgian in its grace and elegance, with each second I felt additional length being added onto the underbite
I have to feel like if there's an afterlife for military people who die in combat, being the ONLY PERSON to die in a particular battle would be disconcerting...
Like, you get there, you dust yourself off, and wait for your friends to reach you... and wait... and wait... 😅
This intro, the many "commercials" and the deep spoon feeding of lore. These, these things are why I choose to be a lurking ExPro for so long. Thank you for this, insomnia is in full swing. I have an app with a waiting room in 4 hours. I needed this laugh.
If anyone's confused about why a couple of islands full of guano (literally mountains of bird shit) were such a big deal, for somewhere around two hundred years those islands were one of if not THE leading source of nitrates in the world.
Nitrates are essential for making gunpowder and fertilizers, which made Chilean nitrates some of the most valuable shit in the world until Germany started building Haber-Bosch Process reactors during the First World War, so control of those islands meant you had effective control over world arms manufacture.
A Big Deal.
20:36 "Here's some armor, nobody fighting you has anything close to it, but wearing it in the jungle's probably literally more dangerous than just fighting in a shirt."
There is a good reason why alot of them adopted native styles of armor. Though to be fair most of the common soliders and "sailors"(who were turned into foot troops)didn't have the funds for much beyond a sword and sheild plus a basic armor like a helm and breastplate.
That is one of the trippiest history intros I have EVER seen.
And we love Tex for having it.
"Why is America so angry?!"
This is the question asked by all countries over the past 60 years
My guess? We were just mind our business when our dad shits the bed in his senility and we have to be the adult and keep the neighbors from burning down the neighborhood.
good lord. this intro alone is amazing. i hope the play though is at least 1/10th as amazing.
1 hour 15 minutes in, he says thats all I remember about Spanish history......
Dude, that hour was more than i got in 4 years as a Social Studies Education major with a concentration in History.
Thank you for the knowledge! And yes it's been a while, but i hope you feel better!
Tex's vision for sPAIN: Little s, big PAIN.
Jesus christ, your intros are normally pretty good, but this one is just pure perfection. Mad respect o7
The editor went SO HARD on that intro! Good work!
I have to say that intro was art, bravo to the editors
The Spanish Empire
Current Objective: Survive
On the admiration that Horatio Nelson held for the Santisima Trinidad, I've always been fascinated by the professional camaraderie that Age of Sail officers seemed to have for each other, even across rival nations.
I like to think that part of this is due to the fact that no matter how horrifying battle could be, the ocean could always do far worse to a sailor.
The 'threaten to blow up a town unless the owner pays up, because someone you like got hurt there' reminded me of an incident leading up to the War of 1812. British ship, the Leander, fired a warning shot at a ship they were trying to interdict. And, way the hell on the far side of the interdicted boat, some poor sod called John Pierce, minding his own business, blinked and found himself in the hereafter, the Leander's shot having deleted his head.
This is why we check our backstops, kids.
Personally i find that intro perfectly summed up what the idea of an alternate history for spain would look like if someone who knows the way naval history would go might have saved the spanish navy
In 1492, the worst group of tourists in the world discover the Caribbean and proceed to wreck it
"Trafalgar happened and then things got worse." Oh shit this was still the good old days.
These series' have always been a fun watch/listen, but this one is elevated so much more with the editing, thank you Mr Editor, you dun gud.
ALL SHIPS, MAKE SMONK!
My god, that music is banging. I felt like I just experienced 400 years of naval conquest in 2 minutes.
Rebuilding the Spanish Armada, one ship at a time
glorious opening
"Tex, naval empires are not instruments!"
"Tex yes! TEX ALWAYS YES!"
this is so high-effort, i love it
I was in Madrid in 2016 and stumbled across the maritime museum. They have some trippy stuff from the New World and Age of Exploration. Plus models of most ships which I did enjoy learning about their ships.
The intro was quite rather unhinged and I loved it to bits.
That intro was BEAUTIFUL 😂
That opening is absolutely magnificent!
Ooooh! So THAT’S where the phrase “died of frustration” came from. 😮
I always look forward to Naval and other history with Tex. The devil is always in the details. Tex gives us the context to the best of his abilities for all the side notes from our history books. Between Tex and The Fat Electrician, I'm learning a lot more about history than I did in school and I'm all for it.
30:25 7th Sea mention!
Some additional fun facts about the Spanish Empire (accuracy not guaranteed):
Thanks to the Manila galleons, New Spain actually had a decent population of Filipino, Chinese, and to a lesser extent Japanese immigrants.
The Spanish also harvested so much gold and silver from the Americas that it actually *tanked* their economy from inflation, leading to a substantial amount of counterfeit currency being created using less valuable metals. At one point, the crown decided to dump their *entire supply* of one of the more common counterfeiting materials into the ocean in order to curb the issue. What was this material? *PLATINUM.*
The Wars of Spanish Succession are also directly responsible for what is commonly referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, as many of the infamous captains and crews were initially recruited and trained as privateers by the European powers involved and promptly fired once the Wars ended and privateering was declared illegal. Unsurprisingly, telling a bunch of militarily trained men with their own ships and weapons to quit their very lucrative jobs and go home to their much duller, worse quality lives without compensation didn't go over particularly well.
Fun Spanish Silver facts: at one point, 1/3rd of every silver coin in China came from a Peruvian/Mexican silver mine. The decline of the trade with Spain was a large factor in the gradual shift to trade with the British EIC, who realized that there was this lil plant called Opium that the Chinese really liked buying cheaply from India...
To be fair, this happened after pretty much any war, both naval and on land. There's a reason why robber barons and various armed bands went around the countryside that eventually needed to be hunted down.
Intro is an absolute masterpiece
more silly boat!!! >= 3 Fill the oceans with trophies of victory.
edit: the studio behind this is undergoing reorganization and might be shutting down.
Oh no :(
Damn
That's unfortunate ☹️
@@scp2539 Indeed. The last update rolled out in December although he seems to be running an earlier build. Lots of modders around still though with some fantastic mods that make the game much better
Big sad if they really shut down, was looking to get this game
"In fact, get off Reddit. You'll be happier." Solid dad advice.
Right banger of an intro lads. Now, I'm going to need to know where specifically I can download/purchase the backing track.
The intro is pure acid. I like it.
Tex's naval history podcast time!
That intro is spectacular. And after listening to Tex's summary of Spanish history, I got much of the references too.
I was watching that intro, and could not stop wondering which drug I had unwittingly consumed...
The Tex Horrible History of the Spanish Navy is the history explainer I never knew I needed.
I would love to see European Farcry with a cop, Tex and Dep running Generation Zero would probably be horrible for all parties given how janky it is but given their love for cold war era stuff and the fun way the robits explode they might actually have fun with it.
Von Muffinbeard is now the word of the day, for me. LOL wow!!
That intro is awesome. I'm here for the naval history ramblings and the game play.
I was no where near high enough for that slapping intro. Great job!
This intro alone is wild enough to make me invested
Ahhhh finally, an Iberian acid trip intro with historical "truth hurts" points spread throughout.
Whoever put that together has a very high IQ.
I did not expect a hardstyle intro song lmao
In this episode We learned Tex doesn't know what the word discover means.
I see those railway guns in the intro, and in my head I hear one thing: "WINMAG"
This intro is a true banger for the series
At first I was scared of the intro.
Now that I've survived the first time listening to it I'll keep watching it. This is awesome!
That intro is why I'm here, a consistent dedication to... quality.
Probably took longer to make than the actual recording, and gives me more social studies flashbacks than the history channel ever did.
I keep rewatching the intro, catching more and more layers to the humor and rapid-fire history lesson/meme every time. JFC I wish my history classes had been like this, it makes me want to start reading historical non-fiction (beyond war materiel stat-porn).
That was an awesome summary of Spain from 1492 onward.
WHOEVER/S MADE THE INTRO, BRAVO 👏👏👏❤❤❤
Techno history intro is, actually, suprisingly accurate. Love it. Keep 'em coming! :)
That intro alone needs its own posting, its so brilliant. Also more Tex naval history while making "Boat"? Hell yes.
That was the most beautiful intro.
No words...should have sent...a poet.
Seriously Tex & the entire BPL crew - thank you for these incredible series. They are so much fun to watch and hear your passion for history (and naval history), bring people tons of joy (and are rewatchable as hell!!!!)
Haven't watched the whole video yet, but I've re-watched the intro at least a dozen times now; It's that great, especially the music.
love the idea of just dropping Gustav railway cannon onto a ship and calling it a day ❤
I really enjoy the gameplay in the background with the historical lecture over top format, I thank you as a history fiend. Alao thanks to the editor, nice and slick.
this is quality ship posting. good work; keep it up. happy new year!
Legendary intro. Please release as a standalone single. As is. It's perfect. I need to be able to listen to it on repeat.
Would pop any cocktail of good times and absolutely whiplash myself into a coma over that intro.
Peak banger territory. I wanna see this played on a big rave stage screen.
Super excited to have more Ultimate Admiral to watch while at work, sad that I think I got missed in the credits tho, still excited for pt2!
That intro is amazing
The intro to this went insanely hard for absolutely no reason at all and it is glorious.
Sometimes the BPL intros are good and sometimes they are magnificent to the point where they can easily be rewatched over and over again
These intros get more and more unhinged every time and let me tell you BROTHER I am here for it
I have pneumonia and have had a 102 fever for the past three days. That intro matched my fever dreams so uncannily that I got vertigo and started wondering if I was conscious or not.
Magnificent intro.
Loving the intro!
Holy Monitor, that intro is borderline psych warfare - love it!
Tex talking naval and military stuff during games is a gem btw. More is always welcome.
These intros are just delightful.